Diana, Paolo Persico and Tommaso Solari 1770 -1780 Statue of Apennine, Giambologna 1569- 1581 Ian, here are a couple of ideas for a garden project, or back-yard project depending on which side of the pond you live! Pictures thanks to Taschen.
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Art, essential reading?
Now I am constantly discussing Art with experts which is unnerving because “like everyone else I know nothing of Art”. I suffer from grumpy old male syndrome and “can’t stand intolerance of any kind”!! These are two books I have acquired. The one on the left send to me by a grateful publisher who needed […]
Life Drawing for Victorian Ladies
Corporal Shaw I suppose some of us never really grow up. When serving, I visited my Regimental museum and among all the astonishing things to see and read was the story of Corporal Shaw. It frightens me now that I should have learnt by heart the description of this regimental celebrity. “..Corporal Shaw who cleft […]
Dorset Sunflowers
To all lovers of Van Gough, I apologise, in part, for my opinions and in respect for you all, I add the joke I saw in a bunch of flowers my wife brought home recently; these three specimens which are now past their best! We will plant the seeds next year to see if they […]
Sculpture is the Be All And End All in Visual Art. Official.
Did you spot the Sculpture Diaries on TV this evening? Waldemar Januszczak Art critic of Channel Four, sets out to prove that sculpture is the single most important subject in Visual Art. He is right of course, I look forward to the next two episodes. As an aside though; he did bring up some stuff […]
Michelangelo
From The Royal Collection, Leda and the Swan (Leonardo) , Drawing by Raphael Lucretia by Raphael And these two by Raphael of his mistress Passable female forms? The almost ‘God Like’ adoration given to Michelangelo is in my view misplaced and many sculptors out stripped his skill. I acknowledge only that he was a great […]
Felix-Maurice Charpentier, ‘Flours Que Amavo’
There are a few sculptors who go the extra mile. My list is not complete yet, but Bernini and Clodion are good examples of what I mean and equate in Music to Bach and Mozart. Here is a new addition to my list Felix-Maurice Charpentier 1858-1928. In 1912 (a very good year for lots of […]
Reid Dick in Regents Park
Michael Copeland sent me this picture of another work by Reid Dick RA which I was not aware of. Clearly a delightful childhood moment captured (even if no one believes you about the frog)! Note how he has caught the head; children hold their heads differently to the rest of us. Dated 1931.
Outside but inside the V and A
Some how I managed to avoid the green screens. The chocolate cake is a must too.
George Washington on American soil in England
Charles I in Trafalgar Square, London The best known sculptures in Trafalgar Square are of course Nelson’s, the lions and the fourth plinth (!), but we also have a few others including some from North America. One from a rebellious colony Virginia, gave us a chap with an English name and some American soil for […]
